News from October 2012
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: LOS ANGELES - On Oct. 12, 2012, a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted Mr. Aaron Sandusky, 41, of Rancho Cucamonga, former president of G3 Holistics, Inc., a marijuana business operating in the Inland Empire, of one count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana plants, to possess with intent to distribute...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: Effective Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, the Sandy Hook - Spermaceti Cove Visitor Center will close and relocate to the Sandy Hook Lighthouse Keepers Quarters. The Spermaceti Cove Visitor Center will be closed until spring 2013 based on visitor patterns and anticipated staffing levels for the coming year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Kevin L. Lane, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that four individuals involved in a New Haven-area oxycodone trafficking were sentenced this...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement in response to a letter from an attorney for Nathan Sproul stating that he will not cooperate with a congressional investigation into voter fraud allegations against his company, Strategic Allied Consulting.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) today released a very preliminary, rough and incomplete analysis of individual tax rate reduction from closing tax expenditures, credits or deductions. This JCT study is but one analysis of one hypothetical tax reform option. JCT itself describes the study as an...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry which is tasked with oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), today released the following statement on the implementation of the CFTC’s new “Swaps Definitions" rules...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin made the following statement after a new Joint Committee on Taxation report showed that eliminating all of the itemized deductions in the tax code - together with other policy changes - would only generate enough savings to reduce marginal...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today expanded their investigation into the recent fungal meningitis outbreak linked to a contaminated injectable steroid compounded and distributed by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Framingham, Massachusetts. Of the 14,000 patients injected with the drug product, fourteen people have died and at least 170 people have been sickened across the nation.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: On Oct. 18, 2012, Secretary Ken Salazar will present the 2012 Partners in Conservation Awards in Washington, D.C. From Oregon, two projects were nominated for this prestigious honor. One nomination restored Oregon's southern coastal watershed and the other preserved historic and pre-historic artifacts...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today expanded their investigation into the recent fungal meningitis outbreak linked to a contaminated injectable steroid compounded and distributed by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Framingham, Massachusetts. Of the 14,000 patients injected with the drug product, fourteen people have died and at least 170 people have been sickened across the nation.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: Gateway National Recreation Area begins its yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary with the annual celebration of Fort Hancock Days, to be held on Friday, October 26 through Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Fort Hancock Days commemorates the establishment of Fort Hancock as an Army base on Oct. 30, 1895. Fort Hancock was added to Gateway as part of the park's Sandy Hook Unit by an Act of Congress signed into law on Oct. 27, 1972.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, Friday announced they would conduct a bipartisan inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, that killed four Americans including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today expanded their investigation into the recent fungal meningitis outbreak linked to a contaminated injectable steroid compounded and distributed by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Framingham, Massachusetts. Of the 14,000 patients injected with the drug product, fourteen people have died and at least 170 people have been sickened across the nation.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: Colorado National Monument will temporarily close the overlook at Cold Shivers Point from 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, starting October 15th and extending through November 5th. The overlook and view will not be accessible; however, the parking area is still open and traffic on Rim...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a single count indictment Thursday charging Douk Duke Pen, 33, of Fresno, with cultivating and possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute it, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2012
News Release: Copper Center, AK -Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (WRST) along with the Bureau of Land Management - Glennallen Field Office (BLM) and the Wrangell Institute for Science and Environment (WISE) played host the afternoon of September 26 to twenty Alaska School District Superintendents at the park headquarters theater building for a 'Partnership for Outdoor Learning" forum.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2012
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i- Twenty-five years ago, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park was acknowledged as one of the world's greatest treasures, and was designated a World Heritage Site for having "superlative attributes of universal value important to the common heritage of humanity." Today, there are 21 World Heritage Sites in the United States (including two in Hawai'i, the other is Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument) and 962 sites worldwide.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 11, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 ANKARA, Turkey—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate Rand Beers and Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin today were in Ankara, Turkey where ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding to modernize and improve the efficiency of rural electric generation and transmission systems. The announcement was made on the Secretary's behalf by Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2012
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint against three related companies that bought and sold consumer credit reports, the Justice Department announced today. The government’s complaint charges these companies with violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The companies have agreed to pay a $1.2 million civil penalty to resolve these charges.
